UPDATE: Now works at Grid-1 Motorsports , 3900 South Mariposa Street, Englewood, CO 80110
Don Walker you cant hide in your shop from what you did no matter how hard you may try. Myself and other clients you have stolen from will make sure the world knows of what you did to us and to others. More are coming forward monthly and are all directed to the correct legal and governement officials that will find you guilty for the thousands you have stolen in cash and in parts. Your stealing and lies are soon comming to an end......
Posting this here as well as Don Walker posts here like he is a mechanic and owns a reputable shop. His shop current resides in Adams County Colorado and he still tends to "work" at his shop.
Since this situation below Don Walker continues to lay low and dodge people and issues inspite of Pending Cival Court Cases, and Current Adams County Criminal Investigations as of May 17th 2010. This information is being posted so that you all as well will stand clear of this criminal and not fall into his trap like many others have.
If you type in "Horsepower Research and Development Commerce City" in google youll find many stories like this one about Don Walker and his shops ethical values.
Now on to the story, please enjoy as all is for the true at heart people in Colorado so that they may steer clear of this CON
DWALKER (Don Walker, Donald Walker, Fusionsport, Firestarter, 3r_tech, crankwalkdotnet(ebay), don.walker1@comcast.net, don.walker@crankwalk.net, don@crankwalk.net, Don-HRD, Dwalker(Why make so many names and emails??? Read Below) from Commerce City(Aurora) Colorado Posts here and claims to be a Porsche mechanic and tuner of ALL EMS and ECUS.
Im posting this becuase I dont want any of you to fall into the hands of this "race" mechanic like my car did
On August 12th 2008 I had my car towed to Don Walkers shop, Owner of Horse Power Research and Development, to be left there while I deployed to Iraq to have work done to the car. He has a guy pick the car up on his trailer that was in Colorado Springs to have towed to his shop hand me a digitally signed copy of the agreement between Don Walker and I stating what was to be done with the car while I was to be gone for 365 Days. Days later I went to the shop to talk to Don and his employee Chance (painter at the time) about things I wanted done to the car. Don looked over the engine not listening intently to my suggestions I gave Chance, and things I wanted done to my car as I told Don Walker I wanted Chance only to paint the car, no one else (as was listed in the agreement Don signed). We talked for about an hour and his shop was under COMPLETE understanding of what I wanted done to my car and he even says he pay for my car to get a full clear bra kit installed after paint free of charge so I accept the offer. Day later I leave for Iraq with Don Walker assuring me that pictures will be taken and updated, receipts all updated and emailed, and he was to be done on time or 365 days from when I left the car there. The engine was under warranty and was having issues with compression so he was going to pull that anyway to have it rebuilt since it was under verbal warranty so I figured hell time to paint the engine bay as well. I paid a local shop here in the springs to run a compression test as well to get a second opinion and it showed 2-3 cylinders with bad compression and the engine was having horrible oil issues as well with smoking, but Don told me it was the valve covers releasing high amounts of oil into the exhaust since it was such a high horse powered vehicle. Don said he would take a look at it, and did. He told me the compression was great across the board. This plays out later as we will find out that there indeed were issues with my engine.
As the first few months went by and I started to email Don asking typical questions. Things like when is the car getting started, is the engine apart, hows the body work but all the answers became more like reasons, or excuses. Im having the turbo rebuilt and Im looking for paint shops and getting quotes or things like the polishing is getting done and parts are on order. I didnt mind since I was like 8 months out till I got home. A few more weeks go by and I email Don Walker for pictures of car parts that I want to sell. He agrees to take pictures for me and even help out on the shipping of the boxes by packaging them up for me. After emailing him over 4 times it takes him about 3.5-4.5 weeks to get me the pictures on his online account, remember Im in Iraq so its easy to blow me off. I sell some parts; some are mailed on time, some take up to 2 weeks to get to the person who bought them making me look like a bad seller. I email Don Walker and he assures me he mails these things out on a daily basis, but that isnt obviously the case. I pay for the bills that show polishing, the transmission rebuild, and a valve cleaning job, oh and now he wants me to pay for a $200 towing fee for the pickup to take my car to Denver from Colorado Springs NOT talked about until the car is there at his shop, nice huh but I pay it anyway. So he is getting paid before I even see any of my work because Im supposed to trust him right?
We are now on the date of May 6th 2009, which is 7-8 months later and I email him about the paint because Im upset the car is not painted yet. I get a response a few days later. Currently the car is ready to go to blast-tec and be stripped, I have spoken to two more good painters regarding the job and I believe I can stay within your budget for paint, just waiting on them to give me solid quotes before making a decision. Don Walker knew what I wanted to spend before I left and knew the time frame I wanted to have the car done in but he insists he tries to stay in my budget of $4000 that we talked about for the paint. Don then emails me with information stating my car is micro-cracking and in order for my car to have the windshields taken out for a proper paint job they would have to be broken out of the car because there is no way to get them out otherwise. So I do research on micro-cracking to find out there is no such thing. He replies with this I still call it micro-cracking, but I really should have said micro-checking, which is apparent to a good painter without a microscope- it appears as a dulling effect but when you look at it closely under good light and/or with a magnifying glass you will see a lot of very small cracks. My car never had cracks in the paint, not have I ever heard of such a thing on a car with only 10 years of paint on it. Don tells me he is going to have a professional look at the glass after I argued with him telling him there is no way he needs to crack the glass to get it out. Now he knows I want the glass removed and I want a show car paint job as we talked about but he still emails me this I guess the bottom line is what level of paint job do you want? I thought I already told him 4-5 times that I wanted a show car paint job but he throws me a curve. He goes on to tell me he only hires pros and the job will be done right because there reputation is on the line but I argue I want the car painted at my place of choice. He continues to assure me that the car will be done right even after I spend numerous calls for Iraq talking to him. He wont budge; he wants his pros to do it. He tells me he has found 2 shops he deciding between, and now a buddy he knows at 3R that can paint because I told him I dont want you to paint it.
We now fall into month 10 and still no paint. Im supposed to arrive home in 2 months and the car has not even been to a shop. I ask why is the paint not done, He emails me back with this Thats because I have NO CLEAR ANSWER from you as to what YOU want to do with your car. I told you what the price is and you have as yet not said to go ahead with the job. You clearly indicated to me that the job was not within your budget and so I have held off until we have clarification. Funny, we go from a word of mouth $2500, to my budget of $4000, to a quote of $6000? I dont see how this makes sense. Then he goes on to tell me he just does not know what the heck is going on with my paint because I still have not told him what I wanted? After a good argument with him he decides to let me know again how his shop is ran. Things have changed a bit here Ryan, I am still doing the work here by myself but bring in specific people who do a high standard of work as needed and they are held to that high standard. So basically he has no one in his shop that is a qualified mechanic. He states he just brings people in when he needs certain jobs done but as I see it you should not need to outsource.
I pay my bills all on time and give Don no grief but Im not getting any replies in time and no updated pictures that I asked for. I tell him to hold off on the paint because this is ridiculous and I just dont trust him anymore. We are now into July and no paint has touched the car and the engine is on a stand still not touched. This is 11 months later and over $6000 paid to Don Walker. He emails me again stating the car is ready to go into paint and will be there this month and we are still on track to getting this done by the deadline we agreed on August 15th 2009. But August 15th is one month away and the car has no paint on it. Don assures me that it will be done, I know it wont be. He also tells me you know one of your pistons was cracked and chipped? I said no and he tells me yea and 2 of them were warped as well. I asked him so then the engine was bad after all but you told me the compression was good. He proceeds to tell me the compression was good, you wouldnt be able to tell the difference on a chip like this, the compression test wouldnt show it and he agrees to pay for ½ of the pistons costs if I pay 1/2 , so I agree. August 29th 2009 I go to see my car, its in a million pieces not done and it somehow has masking on it? Don explains to me its in the process of getting put back together and due to the masking I cant open the doors to look inside, so basically its a shell and the windows are taped off and there is black paint on the brown masking? So I ask Don Walkers mechanic Did Don paint this car he tells me yes he painted it here in the back Funny? I asked Don not to paint it? So I ask Don, Who painted this car? He proceeds to tell me that Harvey from Corvette City painted it. I say hmm, so you didnt paint any of this car? He tells me he painted some of the car. Im pissed, not only does it look like crap but he painted the car even thought I told him in the contract and in person not to. The car looks horrible. One year, or 365 days later and the car is in pieces, the paint is horrible and the engine about 25% done. He tells me they had guys push the car to Corvette City to have it painted. But from his shop you have to take the highway and its 13 minutes away according to map quest. I ask his employee did you ever push my car to a shop to have painted? He tells me no Don painted it here in the back He assures me again that the car will be done in the next 3 weeks because there behind even after 365 days of having the car. He then goes on to tell me and show me my pistons. You see here, here is that chip, good thing I took the engine apart or else I wouldnt have noticed this, it must have happened when that map sensor wire was loose. So of course its my fault right? He knew it was loose, I knew it was loose so its my entire fault because Im not the one who put the engine together and into the car he was. Even though he tells me he will pay ½ the piston cost since he verbally warranted my engine, so I agree and pay $500 for the pistons which cost $650. He tells me since he had to next day them and gets them from another supplier there $1000 for him and $500 is half.
Don Walker you cant hide in your shop from what you did no matter how hard you may try. Myself and other clients you have stolen from will make sure the world knows of what you did to us and to others. More are coming forward monthly and are all directed to the correct legal and governement officials that will find you guilty for the thousands you have stolen in cash and in parts. Your stealing and lies are soon comming to an end......
Posting this here as well as Don Walker posts here like he is a mechanic and owns a reputable shop. His shop current resides in Adams County Colorado and he still tends to "work" at his shop.
Since this situation below Don Walker continues to lay low and dodge people and issues inspite of Pending Cival Court Cases, and Current Adams County Criminal Investigations as of May 17th 2010. This information is being posted so that you all as well will stand clear of this criminal and not fall into his trap like many others have.
If you type in "Horsepower Research and Development Commerce City" in google youll find many stories like this one about Don Walker and his shops ethical values.
Now on to the story, please enjoy as all is for the true at heart people in Colorado so that they may steer clear of this CON
DWALKER (Don Walker, Donald Walker, Fusionsport, Firestarter, 3r_tech, crankwalkdotnet(ebay), don.walker1@comcast.net, don.walker@crankwalk.net, don@crankwalk.net, Don-HRD, Dwalker(Why make so many names and emails??? Read Below) from Commerce City(Aurora) Colorado Posts here and claims to be a Porsche mechanic and tuner of ALL EMS and ECUS.
Im posting this becuase I dont want any of you to fall into the hands of this "race" mechanic like my car did
On August 12th 2008 I had my car towed to Don Walkers shop, Owner of Horse Power Research and Development, to be left there while I deployed to Iraq to have work done to the car. He has a guy pick the car up on his trailer that was in Colorado Springs to have towed to his shop hand me a digitally signed copy of the agreement between Don Walker and I stating what was to be done with the car while I was to be gone for 365 Days. Days later I went to the shop to talk to Don and his employee Chance (painter at the time) about things I wanted done to the car. Don looked over the engine not listening intently to my suggestions I gave Chance, and things I wanted done to my car as I told Don Walker I wanted Chance only to paint the car, no one else (as was listed in the agreement Don signed). We talked for about an hour and his shop was under COMPLETE understanding of what I wanted done to my car and he even says he pay for my car to get a full clear bra kit installed after paint free of charge so I accept the offer. Day later I leave for Iraq with Don Walker assuring me that pictures will be taken and updated, receipts all updated and emailed, and he was to be done on time or 365 days from when I left the car there. The engine was under warranty and was having issues with compression so he was going to pull that anyway to have it rebuilt since it was under verbal warranty so I figured hell time to paint the engine bay as well. I paid a local shop here in the springs to run a compression test as well to get a second opinion and it showed 2-3 cylinders with bad compression and the engine was having horrible oil issues as well with smoking, but Don told me it was the valve covers releasing high amounts of oil into the exhaust since it was such a high horse powered vehicle. Don said he would take a look at it, and did. He told me the compression was great across the board. This plays out later as we will find out that there indeed were issues with my engine.
As the first few months went by and I started to email Don asking typical questions. Things like when is the car getting started, is the engine apart, hows the body work but all the answers became more like reasons, or excuses. Im having the turbo rebuilt and Im looking for paint shops and getting quotes or things like the polishing is getting done and parts are on order. I didnt mind since I was like 8 months out till I got home. A few more weeks go by and I email Don Walker for pictures of car parts that I want to sell. He agrees to take pictures for me and even help out on the shipping of the boxes by packaging them up for me. After emailing him over 4 times it takes him about 3.5-4.5 weeks to get me the pictures on his online account, remember Im in Iraq so its easy to blow me off. I sell some parts; some are mailed on time, some take up to 2 weeks to get to the person who bought them making me look like a bad seller. I email Don Walker and he assures me he mails these things out on a daily basis, but that isnt obviously the case. I pay for the bills that show polishing, the transmission rebuild, and a valve cleaning job, oh and now he wants me to pay for a $200 towing fee for the pickup to take my car to Denver from Colorado Springs NOT talked about until the car is there at his shop, nice huh but I pay it anyway. So he is getting paid before I even see any of my work because Im supposed to trust him right?
We are now on the date of May 6th 2009, which is 7-8 months later and I email him about the paint because Im upset the car is not painted yet. I get a response a few days later. Currently the car is ready to go to blast-tec and be stripped, I have spoken to two more good painters regarding the job and I believe I can stay within your budget for paint, just waiting on them to give me solid quotes before making a decision. Don Walker knew what I wanted to spend before I left and knew the time frame I wanted to have the car done in but he insists he tries to stay in my budget of $4000 that we talked about for the paint. Don then emails me with information stating my car is micro-cracking and in order for my car to have the windshields taken out for a proper paint job they would have to be broken out of the car because there is no way to get them out otherwise. So I do research on micro-cracking to find out there is no such thing. He replies with this I still call it micro-cracking, but I really should have said micro-checking, which is apparent to a good painter without a microscope- it appears as a dulling effect but when you look at it closely under good light and/or with a magnifying glass you will see a lot of very small cracks. My car never had cracks in the paint, not have I ever heard of such a thing on a car with only 10 years of paint on it. Don tells me he is going to have a professional look at the glass after I argued with him telling him there is no way he needs to crack the glass to get it out. Now he knows I want the glass removed and I want a show car paint job as we talked about but he still emails me this I guess the bottom line is what level of paint job do you want? I thought I already told him 4-5 times that I wanted a show car paint job but he throws me a curve. He goes on to tell me he only hires pros and the job will be done right because there reputation is on the line but I argue I want the car painted at my place of choice. He continues to assure me that the car will be done right even after I spend numerous calls for Iraq talking to him. He wont budge; he wants his pros to do it. He tells me he has found 2 shops he deciding between, and now a buddy he knows at 3R that can paint because I told him I dont want you to paint it.
We now fall into month 10 and still no paint. Im supposed to arrive home in 2 months and the car has not even been to a shop. I ask why is the paint not done, He emails me back with this Thats because I have NO CLEAR ANSWER from you as to what YOU want to do with your car. I told you what the price is and you have as yet not said to go ahead with the job. You clearly indicated to me that the job was not within your budget and so I have held off until we have clarification. Funny, we go from a word of mouth $2500, to my budget of $4000, to a quote of $6000? I dont see how this makes sense. Then he goes on to tell me he just does not know what the heck is going on with my paint because I still have not told him what I wanted? After a good argument with him he decides to let me know again how his shop is ran. Things have changed a bit here Ryan, I am still doing the work here by myself but bring in specific people who do a high standard of work as needed and they are held to that high standard. So basically he has no one in his shop that is a qualified mechanic. He states he just brings people in when he needs certain jobs done but as I see it you should not need to outsource.
I pay my bills all on time and give Don no grief but Im not getting any replies in time and no updated pictures that I asked for. I tell him to hold off on the paint because this is ridiculous and I just dont trust him anymore. We are now into July and no paint has touched the car and the engine is on a stand still not touched. This is 11 months later and over $6000 paid to Don Walker. He emails me again stating the car is ready to go into paint and will be there this month and we are still on track to getting this done by the deadline we agreed on August 15th 2009. But August 15th is one month away and the car has no paint on it. Don assures me that it will be done, I know it wont be. He also tells me you know one of your pistons was cracked and chipped? I said no and he tells me yea and 2 of them were warped as well. I asked him so then the engine was bad after all but you told me the compression was good. He proceeds to tell me the compression was good, you wouldnt be able to tell the difference on a chip like this, the compression test wouldnt show it and he agrees to pay for ½ of the pistons costs if I pay 1/2 , so I agree. August 29th 2009 I go to see my car, its in a million pieces not done and it somehow has masking on it? Don explains to me its in the process of getting put back together and due to the masking I cant open the doors to look inside, so basically its a shell and the windows are taped off and there is black paint on the brown masking? So I ask Don Walkers mechanic Did Don paint this car he tells me yes he painted it here in the back Funny? I asked Don not to paint it? So I ask Don, Who painted this car? He proceeds to tell me that Harvey from Corvette City painted it. I say hmm, so you didnt paint any of this car? He tells me he painted some of the car. Im pissed, not only does it look like crap but he painted the car even thought I told him in the contract and in person not to. The car looks horrible. One year, or 365 days later and the car is in pieces, the paint is horrible and the engine about 25% done. He tells me they had guys push the car to Corvette City to have it painted. But from his shop you have to take the highway and its 13 minutes away according to map quest. I ask his employee did you ever push my car to a shop to have painted? He tells me no Don painted it here in the back He assures me again that the car will be done in the next 3 weeks because there behind even after 365 days of having the car. He then goes on to tell me and show me my pistons. You see here, here is that chip, good thing I took the engine apart or else I wouldnt have noticed this, it must have happened when that map sensor wire was loose. So of course its my fault right? He knew it was loose, I knew it was loose so its my entire fault because Im not the one who put the engine together and into the car he was. Even though he tells me he will pay ½ the piston cost since he verbally warranted my engine, so I agree and pay $500 for the pistons which cost $650. He tells me since he had to next day them and gets them from another supplier there $1000 for him and $500 is half.